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Science 26 September 1975:
Vol. 189. no. 4208, pp. 1083 - 1088
DOI: 10.1126/science.189.4208.1083
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Paleoclimatological Analysis of Late Quaternary Cores from the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico

Cesare Emiliani 1, Stefan Gartner 2, Barbara Lidz 2, Koneta Eldridge 3, Dwight K. Elvey 3, Ting Chang Huang 2, Jerry J. Stipp 3, and Mary F. Swanson 3

1 Department of Geology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33124
2 Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33149
3 Department of Geology, University of Miami

Oxygen isotopic, radiocarbon, and micropaleontological analysis of deep-sea cores from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico identify an episode of rapid ice melting and sea-level rise at about 9600 years B.C. This age coincides, within the limits of all errors, with the age of the Valders ice readvance and with the age assigned by Plato to the flood he describes.


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